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Materials on folklore, ethnography, and linguistics collected by YIVO in Vilna before WWII

Research papers written by students in YIVO's graduate studies program in Vilna before WWII

Manuscripts by and biographical materials on Jewish writers and scholars, as well as other materials about Yiddish language and literature

Records of the administration of the Jewish community in Vilna from 1800 to 1940

Records related to the hiring of a rabbi, cantor, ritual slaughterer, teacher; the building of the mikve (ritual bath), the sale of the synagogue in Briesen, and other documents

Records of a vocational school founded in Vilna in 1921 to train young people in the fields of mechanics and electrical maintenance

Records of the Jewish Actors Union, including 600 individual files on actors, singers, composers, and directors

Several thousand 19th-century kvitlekh (written requests to a rabbi asking for a blessing or advice) sent to Rabbi Eliayahu Guttmacher, known as the Tsadik of Graetz

Leaflets, posters, and other documents related to political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

Records of Jewish organizations and institutions; official government, municipal, and legal documents; memoirs of the German occupation, and other documents chronicling the life of the Jewish community in Vilna

Records of the Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye (Central Yiddish School Organization), a secular Yiddish school system active in Poland from 1921 to ca. 1940

Records of the Yiddish Teachers' Union, a professional association in Vilna which promoted the interests of its member teachers and was ideologically associated with the Yiddish secular school network known as TSYSHO

Correspondence, leaflets, contracts, and other materials related to the work of a union for Jewish writers and journalists in Vilna

Fragmentary records of the office of the Vilna Chief of Police, including dossiers on people suspected of revolutionary activities

Papers of the librarian of the Strashun Library, including copies of rare manuscripts, research materials for scholarship, and correspondence

Rare historical documents and research materials from the collection of the great historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), seminal scholar of Jewish history in Eastern Europe

Printed materials, posters, correspondence, and fragmentary personal papers and records of institutions related to Polish Jewish life before WWII

Historical and literary manuscripts belonging to YIVO that were rescued and hidden from the Nazis, including manuscripts by S. An-Ski, Theodor Herzl, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Sholem Aleichem

Records of the Landsmanshaftn Department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to enlist the cooperation of landsmanshaftn in the AJDC's reconstruction program in Eastern Europe

Papers of an Anglo-Jewish diplomat who was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and who was involved in the drafting of the minorities treaties